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The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition. — Eugene Rivers

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. — Elie Wiesel

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them — Andrew Matthews

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. — Simon Baker

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money. — John Spence

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. — Greg Gutfeld

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy! — Colley Cibber

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself. — Charles Churchill

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad. — Fuller Albright

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number. — Ken MacLeod

You poor thing. I wish I could've been there to save you."
"You did save me. You save me every single day. — Portia De Rossi

The poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep. — Ambrose Bierce

Believe me ... to have a little fear is not a bad thing.
Fear at times keeps many idiots from their early graves! — Timothy Pina

If there's one thing a goblin hates more than being poor, it's being dead. — Jamie Sedgwick

Oh, bless your heart," she says, which in southern is akin to 'you poor, stupid thing. — Eve Jagger

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own. — E.L. Doctorow

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die! — George Darley

To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another. — Katherine Boo

What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition. — Bill Strickland

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn. — Anne Sexton

Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical. — Elizabeth A. Reeves

Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ... — Lauren Gilley

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. — Clement Attlee

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me. — Ornette Coleman

These poor, rich men who, seeing that you can't be caught, attempt to buy a thing they know cannot be bought. — Patrick Rothfuss

One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook. — Diane Mott Davidson

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person. — Gary A. Haugen

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand. — Anton Chekhov

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude. — Geraldine Brooks

She's the One all right," she muttered. "Poor thing. — Frank Herbert

No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots. — George Orwell

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing. — Adam Carolla

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. — William Shakespeare

Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful
when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.
Remember that! — Knut Hamsun

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face. — Austin O'Malley

Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment. — Barbara Kingsolver

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. — Marilynne Robinson

A self-made martyr is a poor thing. — Ellen Glasgow

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow. — Ann Romney

IF LIFE WAS A THING THAT MONEY COULD BUY .....THE RICH WOULD LIVE AND THE POOR WOULD DIE. — John H. Sibley

A poor relation - is the most irrelevant thing in nature. — Charles Lamb

A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You've got nothing,
I've got nothing,
And it's not a good thing. — Arzum Uzun

I decided the poor thing loved crazy people. — Rachel Higginson

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. — Ray Kroc

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing that they have is money. — Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life. — Robert Kiyosaki

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another — John Ray

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope. — Jennifer Worth

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best, — Salman Rushdie

They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran. — Marlon James

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. — George Herbert

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer

All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to. — Jonathan Raymond

You're too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we'll have to send some of the guards with you. You'll never survive on your own, poor thing. — Kiera Cass

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Only think of Mrs. Holder's being dead! Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her. — Jane Austen

You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to. — Jonathan Franzen

It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner. — Oscar Wilde

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children — Ron Rash

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. — Paul David Washer

The perfect thing for me is to be on something I love, where I'm doing it and have enough money not to be poor, and I'm allowed to go on vacation. — Ben Schwartz

A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world — Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. — Francis Bacon

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art. — William Shakespeare

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse. — Jack Kerouac

There's only one thing worse than being sick...
and that's being sick and poor. — Lou Silluzio

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card. — Mark Twain

...the only thing people resent more than poor immigrants are wealthy ones — Patricia Engel

It occurs to me that my memory of him was a poor substitute for the real thing. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Aww, poor thing, Ryder thought that because he was sleeping with me , he could tell me what do to. — Jaymin Eve

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing. — Manil Suri

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor. — Henry David Thoreau

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. — Scott Stapp

Food- the only thing that the fortunate ones put aside to satisfy their fancy dietary plans and work load while the less fortunate ones work to earn. — Adhish Mazumder

The day passed, a poor, sluggish thing that departed almost gratefully as night took its place. — John Connolly

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. — John Thaw

It's a poor thing to be sane! — Donald Woods Winnicott

How poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope! — Vita Sackville-West

One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation. — Osho

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth. — Rodolfo Costa

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. — Mahatma Gandhi

I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she know where to put the whole world. — Shannon Hale

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound ... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing. — Richard Wagner

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people — Jan Morris

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor. — Nick Hanauer

When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over. — Plato